“I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.”

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”

“I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?”

“When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes”

“I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our last time just us. See, I can write that down, but I don't think I can say it. I'm not doing this to say goodbye, though I know that has to be part of it. I'm doing it to thank you for all we have had and done and been for one another, to say I love you for making this life of mine what it is. Leaving you is the hardest thing I have to do. But the thing is, the best parts of me are in you, all three of you. You are who I am, and what I cherish in myself stays on in you.”

“Because they forgot and I remembered. They would be lost soon enough, and I would keep going. The best I could do was hold on to them after they forgot themselves.”